书目名称 | Labour Power |
副标题 | Virtual and Actual i |
编辑 | Roberto Ciccarelli |
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概述 | Analyzes the emergence of processes of digital production by using instruments of morphodynamics.Presents recent research on the dynamics of digital work.Proposes a historical epistemology based on co |
丛书名称 | Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis |
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描述 | This book offers a critical account of Karl Marx’s dazzling theory of labour power which is also one of the most influential concepts in the history of contemporary philosophy. Labour power is the dark side of the digital revolution. Working men and women are invisible and treated like human service, flesh and blood automatons or organic extensions of a machine that produces data on its own. Automation is viewed as something magic made possible by algorithms whose life is independent of human beings..Labour power, however, has not disappeared. Without drivers, Uber cannot connect customers on its platform; without searches on its browser, Google grinds to a halt; without us, Facebook or Instagram is desert. Labour power is the dwarf hidden inside the puppet of technology that allows algorithms to be intelligent and make the biggest profits in the history of capitalism..The invisible centrality of labour power is the political enigma of our times. Today a new account of the theory of labour power is needed more than ever in order to understand the political economy of digital capitalism on new grounds. .Unlike a long tradition in the history of work, labour power is not only the wor |
出版日期 | Book 2021 |
关键词 | Digital Work; Digital Labour; Digital Capitalism; Platform Economy; Sharing Economy; App Economy |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70862-7 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-70864-1 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-70862-7Series ISSN 2195-1934 Series E-ISSN 2195-1942 |
issn_series | 2195-1934 |
copyright | Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021 |